Sharp Objects

Dear Gillian Flynn,

My introduction to you was 2012's Gone Girl; I was hooked from the get go and could NOT put it down. I have to say – it set the bar really high for your books.

Unfortunately, this one did not meet that bar.

You'd clearly grown as a writer by the time Gone Girl came out, but this one just fell flat. I bumped up my rating by half a star since it was your debut – but in reality, it was very meh.

I figured out who the killer was by chapter 8. It read more like a whiny diary about Camille's life than a crime thriller. I wanted to be kept on the edge of my seat and kept guessing who the killer was, but that's not what I got.

All in all, I was disappointed. I wasn't fully engaged, and the only reason I kept reading was in the hopes that I was wrong about who the killer obviously was. Spoiler: I wasn't.

I'll keep reading your books, but I'll definitely be a bit more choosier in the future.